BEE 5500

Heat and Mass Transfer in Biological Engineering

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Focuses on understanding the principles of heat and mass transfer in the context of biological (biomedical/bioprocessing/bioenvironmental) systems. Emphasizes physical understanding of transport processes with application examples from plant, animal and human biology, the bioenvironment (soil/water/air), and industrial processing of food and biomaterials. Students in BEE 5500 will develop a more complex computational model (for which analytical solution is difficult) using the software used in one of the homework. The goal of this activity will not be computation itself but using numerical computation to probe deeper into one or more aspects of conduction/diffusion, flow, generation/depletion, or geometry effect in a transport process.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2930 and BEE 3310 or equivalent. Corequisites: None.

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